SPY: widest open print to close print gaps on monthly expiration Fridays since 2021

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Cash Settled vs Physical Delivery Options.

Rows × columns

12 × 4

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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Formats

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What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    formatDateTime(date, '%b %e, %Y')                                        AS expiration_label,
    round(toFloat64(open), 2)                                                AS open_print_usd,
    round(toFloat64(close), 2)                                               AS close_print_usd,
    round(100 * abs(toFloat64(close) - toFloat64(open)) / toFloat64(open), 2) AS open_to_close_gap_pct
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
  AND date >= '2021-01-04'
  AND date <  today()
  AND toDayOfWeek(date) = 5
  AND toDayOfMonth(date) BETWEEN 15 AND 21
ORDER BY open_to_close_gap_pct DESC
LIMIT 12